Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
The Smart Grid initiative was developed and funded by government agencies and NGO's. It was the Energy Department's Bonneville Power Authority that invented the concept in the 1990's. It was the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that invented the Grid Friendly Appliance Controller. It was the Federal Administration that showered billions of dollars over the private sector to jump-start the nationwide initiative to implement Smart Grid in every community. If the Federal government had not been the initial and persistent driver, would Smart Grid exist at all? It is highly doubtful. Following the same pattern as the U.S., many other industrialized nations are
implementing Smart Grid at the same time, using their own stimulus money. This synchronized implementation is certainly by design, and as such, it implies that there must be a designer. Who might be providing such top-down coordination on a global basis must be saved for another paper. One thing is certain: The technology being purchased world-wide all originated in the United States and is being marketed by the same global corporations as mentioned above. Lastly, there is an assumption throughout Smart Grid literature that the Federal
Administration will have full visibility of all data within the Smart Grid, even down to the individual household. They will also be in a position to set national, regional and local distribution and consumption policies, such as your "fair share" of available energy, gas and water. International standards created for Smart Grid will also enable the U.S. Smart
Grid to be connected seamlessly with Canada and Mexico, thus providing a comprehensive North American energy management and distribution system. Is Smart Grid destined to be a global phenomenon? Yes. Is it designed to support a new global Technocratic, resource-based economic system? Yes. Technocracy must be seen for what it is: An attempt to impose a totalitarian, scientific dictatorship. In 1933, it called for the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as dictator in order to "pave the way for economic revolution." Fortunately at the time, they failed in their attempted coup. If today's Smart Grid is successfully completed, it will enable the conversion of our
existing economic system into something far different and far worse. This is why the American people repudiated Technocracy in 1933, and this is exactly why we (and citizens around the world) should thoroughly repudiate it today.
[Editor's note: Read an international review of this article on The Daily Bell of Appenzell, Switzerland.]
Resources:
Scott & Hubbert, Technocracy Study Course, Technocracy, Inc., 1934 Background paper for the ministerial consultations, Governing Council of the United Nations Environmental Programme, December 14, 2009 The Smart Grid: An Introduction, U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, web site 2010 Strategic Plan, Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability The Networked Grid 100: Movers and Shakers of the Smart Grid Meloan, Steve, "Toward a Global 'Internet of Things'", Oracle Software, November 11, 2003
Wi-Fi for the Smart Grid, Wi-Fi Alliance, 2009 Obama Announces $3.4 Billion Investment to Spur Transition to Smart Energy Grid, Department of Energy Press Release Note: In preparing for this report, the editor would like to give special thanks to Dr. Martin Erdmann, Carl Teichrib and Dr. Michael Coffman, for their encouragement, testing of ideas and additional supporting research.
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